They have to be young. Windows has only been vaguely pre-emptive since Windows 95. I remember I used to have exactly the same argument with Windows 3.0/3.1 uses when I had my old 1989 Acorn A3000 running RISC OS. I could format a disk and use the machine whilst they couldn't.
I could fly but it was expensive and you had to add at least an hour on for the messing about at the airport. Also you had to get to the airport in the North, and then you had to get from Heathrow or Gatwick in to the centre of the London (which meant use the shuttle trains in to Paddington or Waterloo).
I could drive but you're looking at 5 hours plus (even at my driving speeds) on a good day. Basically in good weather, clear roads and no works I could average 70mph plus but otherwise it's usually more like 50mph plus. Then you have parking and the like.
Train is cheaper than air tickets (just) and is about four hours. From where I lived it was ironically still useful to get to the airport as you could catch the local metro rail system from there to the central station. From there you step on to an express to London. Which whisks you in to the centre and you can use the Tube from there.
With the modern facilities on high(ish) speed trains in the UK I'd rather use the train than the plane every time. Power sockets, WiFi, phone, tables, nice seats *with legroom* and if you take advantage of the dining car then the food isn't bad either.
But those rules were written down in Leviticus. Using the same logic that homosexuality is evil, eating shellfish is also evil (Lev 11:10), eating pork (Lev 11:6-8), touch women at certain times of the month (Lev 15:19-24) and being a blind christian (Lev 21:20). In over two thousand years you'd thought we moved on.
And where does it make one any more evil than another? If you take the bible literally is not presumptive to believe that you can interpreter the mind of god by assigned levels of evilness.
Oh I stand on anything that affects *my* liberties. Personally I have no problem with anyone believing what ever they believe as long as they keep it to themselves. Unfortunately all the Abrahemic religions seem to have a requirement to evangelise. If someone believes something is evil then that's their porogative but don't force me to follow.
Oh we still have choice in so much as there are the commercial channels that use advertising, the satelite and cable standard package channels, the premium channels and VOD.
Having said that I subscribe to standard and premium channels on Sky's digital broadcasting and I still find that most of my viewing is of BBC produced content, either on the BBC channels or on the "UK" network.
A tenner a month is damn good value for money for the ability to keep up to date via the BBC News website, listen to old radio shows via their internet site, watch informative TV programs, listen to current affairs and music whilst in the car, use their interactive services. All advertising free.
But a 'theory' is a logical argument that explains the observed facts. Gravity is a theory because the physics does exactly that. Newton's three laws were a pretty fine theory until Einstein came along. Generally theories don't get completely thrown out but revised as new data shows they don't quite fit the facts.
If you have no evidence that's a 'conjecture'. Creationism is not even a theory it's a conjecture. Unfortunately the un-educated masses who believe all the codswhallop do not know of the difference either.
Video transported over a protocol which is running on a packetised stream. Sounds exactly the same as digital television to me. They're just using IP rather than PES packets.
My second point it 100mph on the UK railways.. you must be joking
You must live in the south. All the people I know who complain about the railways live in the south. Up here they run well, have nice new clean rolling stock and go like stink.
Special Software??? I like iTunes. I have a Mac and use iTunes to organise my music because I like database facilities. It's a good piece of software. Since it's running anyway how hard it is to select the synchronise and update an iPod? Do you complain about the 'special software' required by your PDA when you sychcronise it?
I admit the handling of music files on the device is a little odd but I suppose it's so Apple can, superficially, keep the media companies happy. But if you really want to distribute MP3s just copy them on to an iPod in 'portable' hard drive mode.
I don't have an iPod but my partner does. I am getting an iPod. Why? Because I want to list to music at work whilst I work, because I want to listen to music in the car on the way to work, because I want a portable harddrive, and because I want something that just works.
"Rose is being played as someone who has stupidly wasted her opportunities and is being given a chance to try again. She's clearly supposed to be brighter than her initial situation would imply. She's being played as one of the comanions who can hold their own against the Doctor (Liz, Sarah Jane, Leela, Romana) arther than a screaming unit."
Absolutely. I was going to post something similar but you saved me the trouble. I'm originally from darn sarf and although my accent isn't quite as lazy as Rose's it's still esturian and so I stick out now as I live in Yorkshire. Rose has a similar problem. The Dr's Manucunian accent brings hers in to sharper relief. It's only an accent you'll here on East Enders or The Bill every time.
This was before the mini was announced and you can't get them for love or money around here. The local Apple store is quoting a month or two for delivery. I've always got my Linux PC as a back up.
Probably six months down the like I'll be getting myself an iBook anyway as my works Dell laptop is huge, heavy and crap. It's more a luggable than a laptop.
My 400Mhz B & W G3 cost me about $100 second hand. It runs Panther fine and has enough power to do everything I want to do with it web, mail, music, video and development.
Since then I bought a shiney white Mac Keyboard for it (post price drop so say $35) and plugged in a PCI USB 2 card (I bought it knowing I was getting a Mac. It was used in my PC for a while before being transfered) at a cost of $20. I also bought myself a nice new IDE Sony DVD burner at a cost of $60.
$250 for a 'workstation' albiet a little slow, is a bargain.
Both CRTs and flat screen technology use RGB at their core. Light recording equipment (cameras) typically also use RGB. So the signal is still being converted from RGB to YUV and back again.
YUV/Y Cr Cb is a hack. Originally defined as Y Crb it was a way of fitting colour on to a signal and retain compatibility with monochrome equiment. Because of the available bandwidth on the signal the colour differences had to have a lower resolution which was fine because there are less colour receptors in the eyes than brightness receptors.
A phase difference between the two colour signals allows the two signals to be differentiated. Unfortunately atmospheric disturbance make them drift which is why NTSC got the reception it has about colour. PAL solved it by alternating the phase between colour lines and hence a systematic difference is cancelled out.
S-Video and eventually 'component' video reduce bandwidth issues and eliminate cross-talk between the luminance and chrominance signals by have them on separate lines. But they are still the YUV hack.
It's a fact of life in so much is it's not my company and it's not Apple who are requiring DRM. It's the content providers. Until you can convince them we have to live with it. And if someone keeps making the current DRM methods look weak we'll get forced to come up with even worse ones.
Personally I've never found sensible DRM infringe.
The UK has lower unemployment, proportionately higher exports, proportionally *far* lower imports, is an energy exporter and has *no* external debt. I have to say looking at those figures I feel we're in a far better financial position as a whole.
Those income figures are not right. All other reports say that the average for the uk is £22,000. For example here
Interesting statistics considering many of the to ten GDP countries are also EU members. The average has fallen quite significantly since some of the old eastern block countries jumped on board.
I suggest you don't try and compare the whole of the US and the whole of the EU. For one thing we're way bigger than you now and many of the states are top ten GDP countries. You're not comparing like with like. Comparing the EU to a US state. Okay what happens if I compare a US state to an EU one. How does Arkanasas compare with say Germany?
I dispute the figures quote re GDP. Compare the US economy with say UK. We have a far smaller land mass but more than a tenth of the GDP and lower unemployment (around 2%). Whilst the GDP per capita is higher for the US what's the median value? I know for example, the average salary in the UK is about $40,000 but the actual median is more like $30,000.
Bigger is not necessarily better. LA has the same population as greater London but about a quarter the size. But London has far more green spaces. Of course we have smaller residences. The UK isn't much bigger than a New England state. If we sprawled like you did we'd have no green space at all. Having said that proportionately more of us live in houses (well at least here in the UK), we have our gardens, and our cars etc.
Take my house for example. The income is about $120,000 a year. The house has a footprint of say 25 x 30 ie. 750 feet but there are three floors. The plot is about 50 x 100 feet. Our house is not exceptional. In fact it's quite ordinary in this area. I drive a $5000 Volvo from the late nineties (which would have probably cost more in the US). I have a washerdryer, dishwasher, bread maker, toaster, microwave, yoghurt maker, digital satelite box, digital terestrial box, several computers (Macs, SGI and PC), ADSL, DVD players, Stereos, 2 Playstation2s (one for the main room and one for the bedroom)...
Anyway how does the saying go, the are lies, damn lies and statistics.
As a web developer you should at least have some concept of marketing. I.e. give the people what they want not what you want them to have. If everyone does want to view websites on their phones and you don't cater then they wont use your sites. Who's worse off?
P.S. 140k of Javascript. Bloody hell. I've written full applications which are way smaller.
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Only if run. Downloading just adds it to the dashboard toolbar which is reality like a specialised finder window.
They have to be young. Windows has only been vaguely pre-emptive since Windows 95. I remember I used to have exactly the same argument with Windows 3.0/3.1 uses when I had my old 1989 Acorn A3000 running RISC OS. I could format a disk and use the machine whilst they couldn't.
I used to live 330 miles from London.
I could fly but it was expensive and you had to add at least an hour on for the messing about at the airport. Also you had to get to the airport in the North, and then you had to get from Heathrow or Gatwick in to the centre of the London (which meant use the shuttle trains in to Paddington or Waterloo).
I could drive but you're looking at 5 hours plus (even at my driving speeds) on a good day. Basically in good weather, clear roads and no works I could average 70mph plus but otherwise it's usually more like 50mph plus. Then you have parking and the like.
Train is cheaper than air tickets (just) and is about four hours. From where I lived it was ironically still useful to get to the airport as you could catch the local metro rail system from there to the central station. From there you step on to an express to London. Which whisks you in to the centre and you can use the Tube from there.
With the modern facilities on high(ish) speed trains in the UK I'd rather use the train than the plane every time. Power sockets, WiFi, phone, tables, nice seats *with legroom* and if you take advantage of the dining car then the food isn't bad either.
I don't think much of your History teacher!
When do you think the first motorway in Europe was built? More importantly by whom? (1930s Germany)
When you do think the railways were built? 50 or 60 years ago our railways were already 150 years old. Both my grandparents had cars in the fifties.
Goddess knows where you got your ideas of Europe from but they're a bit wrong.
24 mpg? That's a bit poor. My Volvo averages better than 32 mp(us)g and I mostly drive between 80 and 90 mph on free/motor ways.
But those rules were written down in Leviticus. Using the same logic that homosexuality is evil, eating shellfish is also evil (Lev 11:10), eating pork (Lev 11:6-8), touch women at certain times of the month (Lev 15:19-24) and being a blind christian (Lev 21:20). In over two thousand years you'd thought we moved on.
And where does it make one any more evil than another? If you take the bible literally is not presumptive to believe that you can interpreter the mind of god by assigned levels of evilness.
Oh I stand on anything that affects *my* liberties. Personally I have no problem with anyone believing what ever they believe as long as they keep it to themselves. Unfortunately all the Abrahemic religions seem to have a requirement to evangelise. If someone believes something is evil then that's their porogative but don't force me to follow.
Oh we still have choice in so much as there are the commercial channels that use advertising, the satelite and cable standard package channels, the premium channels and VOD.
Having said that I subscribe to standard and premium channels on Sky's digital broadcasting and I still find that most of my viewing is of BBC produced content, either on the BBC channels or on the "UK" network.
A tenner a month is damn good value for money for the ability to keep up to date via the BBC News website, listen to old radio shows via their internet site, watch informative TV programs, listen to current affairs and music whilst in the car, use their interactive services. All advertising free.
But a 'theory' is a logical argument that explains the observed facts. Gravity is a theory because the physics does exactly that. Newton's three laws were a pretty fine theory until Einstein came along. Generally theories don't get completely thrown out but revised as new data shows they don't quite fit the facts.
If you have no evidence that's a 'conjecture'. Creationism is not even a theory it's a conjecture. Unfortunately the un-educated masses who believe all the codswhallop do not know of the difference either.
Video transported over a protocol which is running on a packetised stream. Sounds exactly the same as digital television to me. They're just using IP rather than PES packets.
My second point it 100mph on the UK railways.. you must be joking
You must live in the south. All the people I know who complain about the railways live in the south. Up here they run well, have nice new clean rolling stock and go like stink.
Special Software??? I like iTunes. I have a Mac and use iTunes to organise my music because I like database facilities. It's a good piece of software. Since it's running anyway how hard it is to select the synchronise and update an iPod? Do you complain about the 'special software' required by your PDA when you sychcronise it?
I admit the handling of music files on the device is a little odd but I suppose it's so Apple can, superficially, keep the media companies happy. But if you really want to distribute MP3s just copy them on to an iPod in 'portable' hard drive mode.
I don't have an iPod but my partner does. I am getting an iPod. Why? Because I want to list to music at work whilst I work, because I want to listen to music in the car on the way to work, because I want a portable harddrive, and because I want something that just works.
It counts as a bloody stupid comment. Unexpected or excessive pregnancy is not usually a problem with gay couples.
100 years, is that old? I suppose it is fairly big though.
"Rose is being played as someone who has stupidly wasted her opportunities and is being given a chance to try again. She's clearly supposed to be brighter than her initial situation would imply. She's being played as one of the comanions who can hold their own against the Doctor (Liz, Sarah Jane, Leela, Romana) arther than a screaming unit."
Absolutely. I was going to post something similar but you saved me the trouble. I'm originally from darn sarf and although my accent isn't quite as lazy as Rose's it's still esturian and so I stick out now as I live in Yorkshire. Rose has a similar problem. The Dr's Manucunian accent brings hers in to sharper relief. It's only an accent you'll here on East Enders or The Bill every time.
Sci-Fi had help with Battlestar Galactica. Sky TV paid most of it which is why we got it first.
"Russian invented the lightbulb"
Of course they didn't, everyone knows that. The British did!
This was before the mini was announced and you can't get them for love or money around here. The local Apple store is quoting a month or two for delivery. I've always got my Linux PC as a back up.
Probably six months down the like I'll be getting myself an iBook anyway as my works Dell laptop is huge, heavy and crap. It's more a luggable than a laptop.
My 400Mhz B & W G3 cost me about $100 second hand. It runs Panther fine and has enough power to do everything I want to do with it web, mail, music, video and development.
Since then I bought a shiney white Mac Keyboard for it (post price drop so say $35) and plugged in a PCI USB 2 card (I bought it knowing I was getting a Mac. It was used in my PC for a while before being transfered) at a cost of $20. I also bought myself a nice new IDE Sony DVD burner at a cost of $60.
$250 for a 'workstation' albiet a little slow, is a bargain.
Both CRTs and flat screen technology use RGB at their core. Light recording equipment (cameras) typically also use RGB. So the signal is still being converted from RGB to YUV and back again.
YUV/Y Cr Cb is a hack. Originally defined as Y Crb it was a way of fitting colour on to a signal and retain compatibility with monochrome equiment. Because of the available bandwidth on the signal the colour differences had to have a lower resolution which was fine because there are less colour receptors in the eyes than brightness receptors.
A phase difference between the two colour signals allows the two signals to be differentiated. Unfortunately atmospheric disturbance make them drift which is why NTSC got the reception it has about colour. PAL solved it by alternating the phase between colour lines and hence a systematic difference is cancelled out.
S-Video and eventually 'component' video reduce bandwidth issues and eliminate cross-talk between the luminance and chrominance signals by have them on separate lines. But they are still the YUV hack.
So you're losing 50% of your audience. Way to go!
It's a fact of life in so much is it's not my company and it's not Apple who are requiring DRM. It's the content providers. Until you can convince them we have to live with it. And if someone keeps making the current DRM methods look weak we'll get forced to come up with even worse ones.
Personally I've never found sensible DRM infringe.
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The UK has lower unemployment, proportionately higher exports, proportionally *far* lower imports, is an energy exporter and has *no* external debt. I have to say looking at those figures I feel we're in a far better financial position as a whole.
Those income figures are not right. All other reports say that the average for the uk is £22,000. For example here
Interesting statistics considering many of the to ten GDP countries are also EU members. The average has fallen quite significantly since some of the old eastern block countries jumped on board.
I suggest you don't try and compare the whole of the US and the whole of the EU. For one thing we're way bigger than you now and many of the states are top ten GDP countries. You're not comparing like with like. Comparing the EU to a US state. Okay what happens if I compare a US state to an EU one. How does Arkanasas compare with say Germany?
I dispute the figures quote re GDP. Compare the US economy with say UK. We have a far smaller land mass but more than a tenth of the GDP and lower unemployment (around 2%). Whilst the GDP per capita is higher for the US what's the median value? I know for example, the average salary in the UK is about $40,000 but the actual median is more like $30,000.
Bigger is not necessarily better. LA has the same population as greater London but about a quarter the size. But London has far more green spaces. Of course we have smaller residences. The UK isn't much bigger than a New England state. If we sprawled like you did we'd have no green space at all. Having said that proportionately more of us live in houses (well at least here in the UK), we have our gardens, and our cars etc.
Take my house for example. The income is about $120,000 a year. The house has a footprint of say 25 x 30 ie. 750 feet but there are three floors. The plot is about 50 x 100 feet. Our house is not exceptional. In fact it's quite ordinary in this area. I drive a $5000 Volvo from the late nineties (which would have probably cost more in the US). I have a washerdryer, dishwasher, bread maker, toaster, microwave, yoghurt maker, digital satelite box, digital terestrial box, several computers (Macs, SGI and PC), ADSL, DVD players, Stereos, 2 Playstation2s (one for the main room and one for the bedroom)...
Anyway how does the saying go, the are lies, damn lies and statistics.
As a web developer you should at least have some concept of marketing. I.e. give the people what they want not what you want them to have. If everyone does want to view websites on their phones and you don't cater then they wont use your sites. Who's worse off?
P.S. 140k of Javascript. Bloody hell. I've written full applications which are way smaller.